Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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16 were created by Miss Soro Fow whom The Fowcert School of t wos founded. Dr Hovey Inin new courses i n chemistry geokx ostronomy Miss Greene. Principe Female Deportment, taught llr geometry ond rhetoric interest In the ncrural soerv come apparent during the 16 vost collection of minerals was ■ When the Civil War ended, the Industrial revolution come to Newark Workers were needed In the factories In 1892, blue and white w selected as the School Col rnnger. on f.veomg High e Society of the English Club, the loteur Oomofic Sodery. Dr. H Ion of o deportit one ncert was held or the Opera House 1666 to raise money for the estob-shment of two new courses titled . ssicol”, ond Scientific '. Prizes were given or o special awards assembly in 1675 for rhe individuals who ochieved •he highest grode on rhe final exom-notion; recited the best oration; wrote he best essoy, displayed exceptionol scholarship ond ottendonce. A modified version of the owards assembly has continued to the present time. In 1671. Dr. Edmund Hovey was mode principal ond held this position untH 1900. The enrollment in the high chool rose to o totol of 476 pupils Finally during this period, the hard Dr. Barringer was credited with construction of the new buildin . The Board of Educonon eventuolly realized thor 6 new h.gh school wos necessary Dr Barringer sow his dreom fulfilled when construction plans for this new high school building were officially odopted. These plons included 36 rooms ond o new auditorium The site that wos flnoliy selected for the new school was o remote section of town known as the goor Nil oreo This tract of lono which Is today the faculty parking lot. wos for from the center of rhe city Mony citizens objected to that location, protesting thot the city would never enlarge to those extremes, and particularly nor In that direction. Before construction had begun on rhe new building, new courses were added to the high school curricula m. The study of music proposed os early as 1677. gained more ond more attention. The Boord of i ducotton ev all pupils ro pass on wooden benches In the school were replaced by desks, ond on iron fence study music Glee ciu ond green sod were odded to tnprov nd .drawing was added ft e appearance of rhe school qrounds. ' school curriculum These The close of the nineteenth century were Ctj olso showed marked progress throughout rhe city of Nework The electric light reploced rhe old gas lamps along the streets, as well os rhe candles and gas Jets in private homes. Newark Public Library was incorporated, and The New ork Evening News was founded New ork. though still o city of dirt roods with wooded sections (such os rhe forest full oreo) wos fast becoming o metropolis In 1675, Dr Williom N. Datringer was hired to succeed Mr George B Sears os Superintendent of schools;. Dr. Barringer, originally from Troy N.Y.. assumed his new position with great enthusiasm. The effort, courage, ond foith he imported to the Nework school system, exerted great influence on rhe youth of this city. By 1666. the enrollment in the high school hod increased dromoricolly. A wore of this overcrowded situation. Dr. Borringer persuoded rhe Boord of Education to enlarge rhe building. Nineteen rooms were odded. ond on onnex wos built for the high school girls. In 1890. ogoin through rhe efforts of Dr. white were odopted os the school col-' ors A silver shield with o white bond ocross it wos odopted os the school pin Inscribed on this pin were the Iniriots N.H.5. By the turn of the century. Nework High hod attained considerable character ond personality The doss of 1898. wos the lost to graduate from the Washington ond Linden Street bulidlng. Construction of the new school, which cost S300.000 00. begon in 1878 ond wos completed In 1899. It wos regorded os one of the The new high school was set finest orchitecturol products of the dry. At thot lime, stone morkers outlined the ground plan for the Socred Heart Co-rhedrol. Also, work hod begun to rrons-swomp Into o park. Thus, the was ser on g veritable beoury f ofrer rhe opening of rhe new building. Dr. Hovey. hoo been suf-ed. He hod I igh school for I Scientific Deportment. Mr. Sonn olso stoned o high school weather bureau, which prepored weather repons. During the 1860 s. mony new awards were created ond organizations founded or Nework High School. The Abbie Toylor prize for composition wos on oword given ro Miss Katherine Belcher ond Miss Genevieve S. Grork, two students who loter become renowned teochers in the school. Besides the ever- The orrtvol of directly affected rhe kind the high school attracted poor! working students wl high school education The census token in 1880. show. 61 IXussions. 6.029 ond 12.963 Nework At first, these immigrants Iiv» on the outskirts of town. Land on the periphery wos cheop, ond foctories generally were dose by. The street cor. or trolley, changed the portern of home locotions thor hod been developing up until the end of the nineteenth century Previously, business executives ond focrocy owners needed to live dose to their establishments De-sir oble. residential lond olong Brood Street was avoiloble. to those who afford ii. Wealthy financier , met chonrs and ndusrrloiisrs buffi fine homes olong rhe streets surrounding Washington Street build-school hod okeody been t 1851 A Technical School. stoblished by Street moved opened High ro wos or 1895 1865 the the crowded I hot SO transferred ins time ro

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Former Principal Pop' Stearns, about to leave school job wos o mojor gool Educorors stressed o clossicol educonon in rhe rop grodes. thus pressunng girls Into reoching corners The high school curriculum wos exponded in 1872 to include commercol subjects, but bookkeeping oppeoled even less to boys thon Lotin and English literoture Defore the close of the nineteenth century there were o number of improvements inaugurated in the high school A literory society colled the Mon-togu (forerunner of the English Deportment) was formed in 1864 by the girls for the purposes of ocquoinring rhe students with the works of important authors ond of improving their writing skills

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BARRINGER HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION NEWARK. N J OR. MORRIS FUCHS »iic not MRS. HOWARD G. HAGEMAN V C t - HUGH J ADDONI2IO M » C • I • » J - william h Bartley CASIMIP s. HARKEWICZ VERNER V HENRY DR. JONAS J LEWIS DR EDWARD F KENNELLY nr o' ic-ooli LOUIS L D. N ICOLELLO AIIIITAM1 lu'l A'laDia’ i CxAtil O' BuliaCI • C-■ a »»■ »■© ■ m • ARNOLD M HESS IICIITAI' JACOB FOX cov-.CL ROBERT H.'FAVA ARCHITECT Newark High School bu»li In 1857 Athenaeum Table of Contents Faculty............................18 Seniors............................46 Activities.........................98 Sports............................124 Directory.........................156 150th year